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Embodied Voices, Revolutionary Narratives: Gender, Art, and Decolonial Thoughts

Presenter(s)

Sara Molaie, Estzer Melitta Szabó, Mahnaz Nezarati, Saghi Ehteshamzadeh, Paria Rahimi, Negar Banisafar, Faezeh Daemi, Rajeshwari Nandkumar, Zohreh Daiezadeh

Date

October 31, 2025

First Panel: Gender, Art and Literature in Persian Modernity 00:00:00–00:04:32 Introductory Remarks 00:04:33–00:17:07 Sara Molaie: Reading Zandukht Shirazi: Gender and Persian Literary Modernity 00:17:14–00:34:09 Eszter Melitta Szabó: Displaced Yet Rooted: Zhaleh Esfahani’s autobiography, The Shadow of Years 00:34:17–00:49:02 Mahnaz Nezarati: Mirrored Gaze: Women Observing Women 00:49:10–01:08:15 Saghi Ehteshamzadeh: My Femininity Grows: A Personal Reflection on Gender Oppression in Iran 01:08:17–01:25:46 Q&A Session

Second Panel: Embodied Resistance, Mediated Confession and Decolonial Thought 01:25:54–01:26:42 Introductory Remarks 01:26:43–01:47:10 Paria Rahimi: Jina/Nazli/Vartan Was a Star: Women as Agents of Revolution in the Works of Ahmad Shamlou Paria Rahimi 01:47:15–02:01:05 Negar Banisafar: Queer Possibilities: Resistance, Intimacy, and Potentiality in Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema 02:01:08–02:13:27 Faezeh Daemi: Queer Persistence and the Politics of Visibility in Post-Woman. Life. Freedom Iran 02:13:33–02:32:10 Rajeshwari Nandkumar: Rewriting Victimhood: Reading Nalini Jameela’s Memoirs as Disruptions of Dominant Victim-Centered Narratives on Indian Sex Workers 02:32:18–02:45:26 Zohreh Daiezadeh: The Fragmented Confession: Posthuman Writing and Derridean Différance in “According to Alice” (2023) 02:45:35 Q&A Session and Discussion